Dacia Gallery is pleased to present “Arid Rain”, the second solo exhibition of works by Italian artist and poet Stefano Losi.  The author’s art project, developed between Milan, London, and New York since the early 1990's, uniquely combines on linen intense poetry in Latin and English and dramatic studies of the human figure in acrylic media, sands and oxidized metal minerals as iron, copper, bronze, titanium, and gold.  The main theme of the exhibition, the desperate existential unquietness inherent in the human condition, is captured by a new poetry volume that collects the author’s work of the last two years, introduced by a foreword of the renown historian and art critic Renato Miracco.  The book will be presented at the opening reception of May 16^th.

Dacia Gallery is pleased to launch the book FINE ARTS IN AMERICA by Grid Modorcea. FINE ARTS IN AMERICA is a complex study of American art. Launching new concepts, creating an original aesthetic and a personal style. Modorcea analyzes diverse directions in art and makes a thorough research on the fine arts in America. The book is an up to date analysis of art events in progress. It documents and references galleries and museums in New York and fills a gap in American art criticism, which deals only established facts. Grid Modorcea explores the risks and new values in art today. Additionally, Dacia Gallery is pleased to launch other books signed Grid Modorcea: THE AMERICAN FILM, THE CORK, already the basis for a film and an album and THE APOCALIYPSE after Brancusi and others.

BIO

Grid Modorcea is a Romanian born writer, filmmaker and critic - an authorized voice, an erudite author with a polemical vocation. He lives and works in New York since 2010. He published 80 books and wrote and directed 45 docudramas - cultural and religious films. Many books are novels, plays, tales, encyclopedias, and criticism on the fine arts. For his work he has received several awards, including Magna cum Laudae. He was proposed for the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Romanian Writers Association and in 2012, Modorcea was a guest writer and journalist at Tribeca Film Festival, NYC. He is also a father of twins that make up the pop band Indiggo Twins, as they are known in America.

STATEMENT

The beauty of a work of art lies in the vision, and the vision comes from the combination of what is particular to what is generally, of local specificity with universal spirit. An ideal example for me is Constantin Brancusi. I followed this principle in my career from literature to film. And the three books translated into English, that we now present, FINE ARTS IN AMERICA, THE AMERICAN FILM and THE CORK, are an illustration of this alloy between particular and universal, between the Romanian and American experience.